Palanga
Palanga is a seaside resort in the Samogitia region of Lithuania. It includes a string of smaller resorts from the edge of Klaipėda city to the border with Latvia and the regional airport; in 2023 it had a population of 18,132.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 15,700 residents
- Description: resort town in Lithuania
- Also known as: “Palangos” and “Polanga”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Muzeum of amber and Tiškevičiai Palace, Palanga.
Muzeum of amber
Museum
Photo: Wojsyl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Palanga Amber Museum, near the Baltic Sea in Palanga, Lithuania, is a branch of the Lithuanian National Museum of Art. It is housed in the restored 19th-century Tiškevičiai Palace and is surrounded by the Palanga Botanical Garden.
Tiškevičiai Palace, Palanga
Photo: Karmen media, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Tiškevičiai Palace, Tiskevičius Palace is a Neo-Renaissance style building in Palanga, Lithuania, built for the Tyszkiewicz family. The construction was started in 1893 and finished in 1897.
Palanga Pier
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Karmen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Palanga Pier is a wooden pier to the Baltic Sea located in Palanga, the most popular and biggest summer resort in Lithuania.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vanagupė and Kunigiškiai.
Palanga
- Categories: resort town and locality
- Location: Klaipėda County, Samogitia, Lithuania, Baltic states, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.923° or 55° 55′ 23″ northLongitude
21.0683° or 21° 4′ 6″ eastPopulation
15,700Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)IATA airport code
PLQUnited Nations Location Code
LT PLQOpen location code
9G73W3F9+58OpenStreetMap ID
node 33775541OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
596238Wikidata ID
Q2047414
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Palanga” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Palanga”
- Albanian: “Palanga”
- Arabic: “بالانغا (لتوانيا)”
- Arabic: “بالانغا”
- Armenian: “Պալանգա”
- Azerbaijani: “Palanqa”
- Azerbaijani: “Pаlаnqа”
- Belarusian: “Паланга”
- Bulgarian: “Паланга”
- Catalan: “Palanga”
- Cebuano: “Palanga”
- Central Kurdish: “پاڵانگا”
- Chinese: “Palanga”
- Chinese: “帕兰加”
- Cornish: “Palanga”
- Croatian: “Palanga”
- Czech: “Palanga”
- Danish: “Palanga bykommune”
- Danish: “Palanga”
- Dimli (individual language): “Palanga”
- Dutch: “Palanga”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بالانجا”
- Esperanto: “Palanga”
- Estonian: “Palanga”
- Finnish: “Palanga”
- French: “Municipalité de Palanga-ville”
- French: “Palanga”
- French: “Polangen”
- Georgian: “პალანგა”
- German: “Palanga”
- German: “Polangen”
- Greek: “Παλανγκά”
- Greek: “Παλάνγκα”
- Hebrew: “פלאנגה”
- Hungarian: “Palanga”
- Indonesian: “Palanga, Lituania”
- Indonesian: “Palanga”
- Italian: “Palanga”
- Japanese: “パランガ”
- Kalaallisut: “Palanga”
- Kashubian: “Palanga”
- Korean: “팔랑가”
- Kurdish: “Palanga”
- Latgalian: “Palanga”
- Latvian: “Palanga”
- Latvian: “Palangas pilsētas pašvaldība”
- Latvian: “Polaga”
- Latvian: “Połąga”
- Lithuanian: “Palanga”
- Macedonian: “Паланга”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Palanga”
- Moksha: “Паланга”
- Northern Frisian: “Palanga”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Palanga bykommune”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Palanga”
- Norwegian: “Palanga bykommune”
- Norwegian: “Palanga”
- Ossetian: “Палангæ”
- Persian: “پالانگا”
- Piemontese: “Palanga”
- Polish: “Palanga”
- Polish: “Połąga”
- Portuguese: “Palanga”
- Pushto: “پالانګا”
- Romanian: “Palanga”
- Russian: “Паланга”
- Russian: “Паланген”
- Russian: “Пеланген”
- Russian: “Поланген”
- Russian: “Полонга”
- Samogitian: “Palanga”
- Samogitian: “Palanguos savėvaldībė”
- Samogitian: “Palonga”
- Scots: “Palanga”
- Serbian: “Паланга”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Palanga”
- Silesian: “Palanga”
- Slovak: “Palanga”
- Slovenian: “Palanga”
- Spanish: “Palanga”
- Swahili: “Palanga”
- Swedish: “Palanga”
- Tatar: “Паланга”
- Turkish: “Palanga (kent)”
- Turkish: “Palanga”
- Ukrainian: “Паланга”
- Ukrainian: “Паланґа”
- Upper Sorbian: “Palanga”
- Urdu: “پالانگا”
- Uzbek: “Palanga”
- Vietnamese: “Palanga”
- Volapük: “Palanga”
- Wu Chinese: “帕兰加”
- “Palonga”
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